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The Trial,Kafka, Franz,Oxford University Press, Incorporated;Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand [Distributor] by Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson, Mike Mitchell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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One of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. In it, a man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. Faced with this ambiguous but threatening situation, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. One of the iconic figures of modern world literature, Kafka writes about universal problems of guilt, responsibility, and freedom. He offers no solutions, but provokes his readers to arrive at meanings of their own. Mike Mitchell's translation captures Kafka's distinctive style. Based on the best available German text, it includes not only the main text but the chapters Kafka left incomplete. In his Introduction, Ritchie Robertson considers the many puzzles in the novel and the different interpretations to which the novel has been subjected. The book also includes a Biographical Preface, an up-to-date bibliography, and a chronology of Kafka's life. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literatur
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson, Mike Mitchell
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781728870366
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Children'S, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (301 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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